Echo and the Bunnymen at SXSW

While we await the summertime release of "The Fountain", the tenth album from Echo and the Bunnymen, fans of Liverpool's finest post-punkers can content themselves with a recent broadcast from one of the four shows they put on at this year's SXSW Festival in Austin, including a rousing version of the new album's first single "Think I Need It Too."

The Bunnymen are enjoying something of renaissance as of late – a volume of memoirs is due later this year from frontman Ian McCulloch, and the band have been touring relentlessly, appearing last October at Radio City Music Hall to perform their classic "Ocean Rain" in its entirity, along with a 20 piece backing orchestra. Two songs from that album are played here – the dramatic swirling "Seven Seas" and the melancholy masterpiece  "The Killing Moon."

Other clips from this 42 minute set, filmed, appropriately enough at Austin's Bat Cave, include crowd favourites "The Back Of Love," "Rescue" and "The Cutter" while later-period material was represented by "Lips Like Sugar" and "Nothing Lasts Forever"  As one sage critic noted, the lack of animation from Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch did little to dampen the Austin crowd's enthusiasm for the hits.